Your weak weaknesses are no use to them…. They find the strongest weaknesses you didn’t know were yours and use those against you.
AIDAN CHAMBERSAnd trust dies from ifs and buts
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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The demons of the Devil don’t use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones.
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She was–I keep using the past tense; I ought to say she is–one of those people who, at first sight, look plain, are quiet, unassertive, unmemorable even. But who, when they start to talk and you get to know them.
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The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
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The thing is, when love is real, whether it’s ebbing or flowing, it’s always there, it never goes away. And that’s the only proof you can have that it is real, and not just a crush or an infatuation or a passing fancy
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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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If a boy, if a man, asks you if you’re all right and you say yes, he’ll always believe you and get on with what he wants to do. It’s just the way they’re made.
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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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How do I think of you? As someone I want to be with. As someone as young as me, but “older,” if that makes sense. As someone I like to look at, not just because you’re good to look at, but because just looking at you makes me smile and feel happier.
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They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
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If you’re rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you’re loyal and faithful, they turn those against you.
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.
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